About Us

At iWise2 we are passionate about supporting your business learning and providing practical tools to help you:

build your leadership and management skills,

improve your performance,

deliver effective change and

move ahead in your career.

We do this in bite sized chunks that are easily digestible and show you HOW to use management and leadership tools and techniques.

Today's organisation's are under pressure to reduce costs and increase the pace of change. At the same time, their people need to deliver more with less, become increasingly agile and able to cope and thrive in an environment of constant change.

As organisations reduce costs, this tends to include reducing their investment in people, and the depth, quality and degree of management training they can provide. It is being left up to individuals more and more to identify their own professional and leadership development.

Our mission is to use our six decades of experience leading large operations, transformational and cultural change, offshore and onshore contact centres and sales and marketing functions to help students, team leaders, managers, leaders and change professionals take control and direct their own professional, leadership and career development.

A little more about us

The idea of iWise2 was conceived 20 years ago and was founded by Beverley Thomas and Martin Thomas in 2010 when we could finally dedicate ourselves to sharing our expertise and experience together with other experts to provide a growing and interactive resource centre to help build leadership, management, change and career skills.

Martin M Thomas - Founder and Partner

See my profile on Linked In or about.me to learn more about my career and experience.

I am a MBA board level Director, with over 37 years experience leading large sales and customer service operations, transformational change, performance improvement and process excellence.

I have been the leader of business units numbering from several hundred people to many thousands spread over different continents.

I have delivered award winning and industry leading cost reduction, revenue and profit growth, customer service and people engagement.

I have held Director and senior leadership roles in Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Contact Centres, Operations, Change Management, Quality, and Service Delivery including accountability for Human Resources and Finance across service and manufacturing industries. I have many years’ experience as a qualified quality trainer and facilitator.

I speak at many conferences and guest presentations to senior managers inside organisations on leadership, change quality and business performance improvement.

I have a Masters Degree in Leadership and Management (MLM) (now re-titled Master of Business Leadership) from Curtin University, Graduate School of Business, Perth, Western Australia one of Australia's longest running and most prestigious executive leadership courses often entered by senior executives after completing their MBA. The is run alongside the internationally ranked MBA.

Beverley Thomas - Founder and Partner

I am an experienced Business Transformation Manager with over twenty years’ experience running complex, organisation-wide, business critical change programmes across Financial Services, Retail Banking, Insurance, Local Government, Commercial Television, and the Oil and Chemicals’ industries. I have held Senior Line Management positions within blue chip organisations.

I have successfully led major improvement initiatives in cultural change, customer service, supply chain, people management, process improvement, waste elimination and major technology system changes.

I have worked with and facilitated Board level strategic planning sessions and worked with senior management in developing their Leadership and Capital Stewardship Skills.

I have worked extensively with individual people coaching and mentoring them to achieve their goals personally and professionally. I have spoken at conferences on Organisational Change and Capital Stewardship that embeds and drives the organisation as one.

My experience in the field makes me a valuable mentor to the next generation of change leaders.

I studied Accounting and Corporate Administration at Curtin University in Western Australia. I am a fully trained CSOC (Capital Stewardship and Organisational Capability) and CPDEP Supreme Champion from the CALTEX - Chevron organisational change leadership programme. I have used and have been trained in numerous programme and project methodologies.

Some of the companies we have worked for and supported in our careers:

Our passion

We are passionate about:

supporting your business learning

providing practical 'how to' tools based on decades of experience

bringing you key messages, models and important theory and thinking

delivering coaching support and interactive learning

providing easy, one-stop, distilled and bite-sized resources

in easy to use presentations ranging from blogs through podcasts to videos

using on-line, 24x7 always at hand, web-based and mobile technologies

helping you improve your leadership, management and change career skills

in order for you to:

learn and refresh your knowledge base and skills

improve your performance

deliver effective change and

move your career ahead and get the edge

When you have confidence in your knowledge you will feel happier at work and increase your career potential.

What drives us

Our decades of leadership experience across a wide range of industries and countries constantly presented us with key underlying themes:

individuals time poor with increasing pressures

hard to achieve balance in the need to learn versus the need to do

people being asked to deliver more with less!

budget restraints cutting back on learning opportunities

training reserved for the 'few' or not available

training delivered but no chance to refresh and no time to revisit

little support post first learning experiences

hard to keep all the learning materials on tap for when you need them

hard to remember all the techniques you have learned

increasing change all around us, ever faster and more complex

few experienced managers able to support and help you and your career

individuals required to take ownership of their own development to move their career forward

work to live versus live to work

time consuming to learn

costly to learn

Fear of failure in front of colleagues and peers

We created iWise2 to eliminate the barriers and difficulties that stop people from learning and improving themselves and their lives and careers.

Why are we different?

We are different.

we are line leaders who have decades of experience and the scars to show it.

we are line leaders who have come up to Director positions from the ground up.

we have decades of leading thousands of people to successful performance and through major change.

we have taken the knowledge and experience acquired over the years, underpinned it with theory and created the HOW of management and leadership for you to use.